Brave New Bollywood: In Conversation with Contemporary Hindi Filmmakers

Book info: Brave New Bollywood: In Conversation with Contemporary Hindi Filmmakers (Hardcover, 292 pages) – SAGE Publications Pvt. Ltd, 2014. Language: English.

These are interesting times in the history of Indian cinema, particularly because the established aesthetic conventions and modes of production of the Hindi film industry are being challenged, as are the boundaries between what is alternative and what is mainstream. This book is an attempt to contextualize the upsurge in this form of cinema in Bollywood/Hindi film industry. It also aims to promote an academic enquiry into the works of these filmmakers, their religious beliefs, social moorings, cinematic influences, attitudes towards filmmaking and experiences of making movies. It will be an important reading for serious students of South Asian studies, film studies and media studies as well as the general reader who has an interest in cinema.

Nirmal Kumar is Associate Professor of History at Sri Venkateswara College, University of Delhi. He has been working on 18th-century Rajasthan and also on Hindi films. He has co-edited a book Filming the Line of Control for Routledge in 2008. Two of his books are under publication: Essays in History of Early Modern India and Medieval Delhi: A Reader. He is also the General Editor of a series on Historians of Medieval India. 

Dr Kumar is widely travelled and well networked with renowned institutions worldwide. He is fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland and Member of the Women’s History Network, UK. He is also associated with the Society for South Asian Studies, London, and British Association of South Asian Studies, UK. He is on the Board of Contemporary India Study Center Aarhus, Aarhus University, Denmark, and a guest fellow at the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla (2012). Besides, he takes keen interest in Bihar, his home state in India, and is an ace photographer.

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